Maureen

“Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.”
― Jo Baker, Longbourn

“Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.”
― Jo Baker, Longbourn

“is the last word (I hope) on the horrors of the Vietnamese re-education camps that our allies were sentenced to when we left them swinging in the wind.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“We all have things we don’t talk about, Ernest thought. Even though, more often than not, those are the things that make us who we are.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes